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Organic Blu-Rays Unveiled
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, Home Entertainment, Movies,
Mitsubishi and Pioneer have developed BR-D discs made with organic materials, which should reduce the cost of making them. Announced at CEATEC 07 in Japan, the companies will not commercialize them until the end of this year or the beginning of the next. They also announced that they can burn them at a speed of 2x and are working on 4x with multiple layers. Wouldn’t it be nice if “organic” implied that they would be edible after they wear out? Mmmm, chocolate Blu-raspberry ray.
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| Akihabara News
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Pioneer Releases Blu-Ray Player
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: HDTV, Home Entertainment, Movies,
It’s Pioneer’s turn to out a new Blu-ray player with their Elite BDP-95FD. It features a 1080p 24 frames per second reproduction rate and outputs audio formats including Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital+, and DTS-HD. It also has a simple graphical user interface for simple navigation. The player is compatible with Windows/XP/Vista/Media Center, as well as Linux and Mac with software. Its remote can control other CEC-enabled products. Look for the player next month with a $1000.00 price tag.
Read More | Digital Tech News
Destroy Sensitive Discs With Aplomb
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Misc. Tech, Movies, Music, USB,
There are paper shredders, but what do you do when you want to get rid of a disc with sensitive data? Sure, you can key them or melt them in the microwave, or you can be an adult about it and use the USB powered CD Destroyer. The gadget can be used on CD/DVD/CD-R/RW, DVD-RAM, and DVD-ROM, can take care of the evil discs in only 5 seconds, and claims a lifetime of 100,000 CDs/DVDs. At a size of 60 x 120 x 50 mm, it weighs only 130 g, and comes with a 50 cm long power cable at a price of $29.99 at Brando.
(Thanks, Fanny)
Read More | usb.Brando
Bootleg Sniffing Dogs Receive Rewards
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Home Entertainment, Movies, Portable Audio / Video, Science,
Our props to Lucky and Flo, two honest-to-goodness DVD-sniffing dogs who received medals after ending a 6 month assignment in Malaysia. The two black labs managed to find 1.6 million illegal movie discs, three DVD replicating machines, and 97 compact disc burners, valued at $6 million. They even went as far as discovering some behind a false wall. Although they cannot tell real from bootleg, their handlers can. The canine cops will be traveling to New York, where they will strut their stuff in the Big Apple. We think the officials should have just given them some kibble and perhaps a copy of “Lady and The Tramp” for their reward.
Read More | Daily Mail
Paramount and Dreamworks Choose HD DVD
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, Home Entertainment, Movies,
We have more news on the HD DVD/Blu-ray battlefield. Yesterday, Viacom’s Paramount and DreamWorks Animation announced that they will be releasing their DVDs exclusively on HD DVD. They feel that the format has better quality, lower manufacturing costs, and less expensive players available. Included in the first batch of releases will be “Blades of Glory” on August 28, “Transformers,” and “Shrek the Third.” The agreement includes other movies distributed by Paramount including DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Vantage, Nickelodeon Movies, and MTV Films, the exception being Spielberg films as they are not exclusive to either format.
Read More | Reuters
World’s Thinnest DVD Discs
Posted by John Goulden Categories: Corporate News, Storage,
Using an innovative nanoimprint technology, Hitachi Maxell, LTD have succeeded in creating the world’s thinnest DVD media at 0.092mm thick. This makes the new disc approximately 1/13th the thickness of existing DVD media, yet allows it to retain the full 4.7GB capacity. Obviously a single disc isn’t going to gain you any benefits simply by being thinner, but if you were to take a stack of say 100-discs, make them double-sided (9.4GB), stuff them into a cartridge 2.5-inches thick, and slap a fancy acronym like SVOD on it, you’d have a digital library cartidge with almost 1TB of capacity (940
GB). SVOD, which stands for Stacked Volumetric Optical Disc, really starts to shine when coupled with the next generation of blue laser technology, as a stack of 50GB discs could increase storage capacity to 5TB.
When released the discs will be priced at under $325 for a 100-disc cartridge.
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| Maxell (jp) via Pink Tentacle
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